SOURCE: "A Harlot's Progress: II—Fanny Hill," in her The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, 1722-1782, Columbia University Press, 1980, pp. 51-66.
In the following excerpt, Miller argues that Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) can be interpreted as a female Bildungsroman in the tradition of other apprenticeship or coming-of-age novels popular in the eighteenth century.
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